oku-hikari

Among the novelties of August, I am very happy to present an non-shaded sencha from the village of Hoshino in Yame. Indeed, in an overwhelming way, Yame sencha are usually strongly steamed and shaded, thus favoring the umami, with in… Read More ›

Here is the second sencha from Asamiya (Shiga prefecture) to enter my 2018 selection. In the previous article I mentioned the great Kôshun, a very rare cultivar outside Shizuoka. Today it is another cultivar usually found mainly in Shizuoka, Oku-hikari…. Read More ›

I have just put on line three teas from the Tatsukawa sector in Tenryû, which are very close to my heart because they are the product of a very young producer, Suzuki Shôgô. At a time when there are fewer… Read More ›

Until now, my Shizuoka mountain teas selection focuses on sencha from Hon.yama, it was time to present another famous mountain area of ​​Shizuoka : Kawane 川根. Kawane is located west of Hon.yama and the north of Shimada and Kakegawa cities,… Read More ›